Cairo Governorate launches Cairo Bike: Where are the lanes?
In its paper issue of Sunday 26 June 2022, Watani is publishing a story on an aspiring project, Cairo Bike, ...
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The Russian Ukrainian crisis: What Kissinger says
The entire world is intensely and anxiously following the ramifications of the Russia-Ukraine war, including those of the military operations ...
New tax relief, new hope
This is one of the very few times I write not as Editor-in-Chief but as Chairman of the Board of ...
23rd batch of unlicensed churches approved for legality
Following some four months of anticipation, Copts welcomed the Cabinet Decision 34/2022 on 11 May approving legalisation of a new ...
Where was the Tourism Police?
Earlier this month, during Eid al-Fitr—the feast that marks the end of Ramadan, the Muslim holy month of fasting—a group ...
Watani addresses homosexuality
Watani publishes in its Arabic paper issue this Sunday, 15 May, its first venture on a highly sensitive topic, one ...
Al-Azhar Grand Imam: Honourable declarations, one comment
The ties of love, affection, coexistence and sharing that have for long bonded Egyptians, Muslims and Christians, will remain the ...
Joy in Resurrection … Solace in martyrdom
On the feast of the glorious Resurrection of Christ last year, I wrote that it was the will of our ...
Amid pain and sorrow: God’s voice rings clear
The horrifying incident of the martyrdom of Father Arsanius Wadid, priest of the church of the Holy Virgin and St ...
Coptic priest in Alexandria stabbed to death
Fr Arsanius Wadid, a Coptic priest who was born in 1966 and ordained a priest in 1995, lost his life ...
As EGP declines: Repricing durable goods?
The complex fallout of the Russia-Ukraine crisis has had a huge impact on global markets, disrupting supply chains and causing ...
Russia Ukraine war: Towards a new global order
Today I carry on with my follow up on the changes reverberated by the Russia Ukraine war. More and more, ...
Russia Ukraine war: Restructuring global order
In last week’s editorial, I reviewed the rampant double standards in international politics, as in dealing with the causes and ...
The West’s double standards
As the military battle between Russia and Ukraine proceeds, a parallel battle rages on the media, political, and economic fronts ...
The Russia Ukraine war: What Americans say
The Russia Ukraine war still rages on, dominating headlines in news, analyses, opinions and talk shows. The media wages a ...
Watani started as an Egyptian weekly Sunday newspaper published in Cairo. The word Watani is Arabic for “My Homeland”. The paper was founded in 1958 by the prominent Copt Antoun Sidhom (1915 – 1995), who strove for the establishment of a civil, democratic society in Egypt, where all Egyptians would enjoy full citizenship rights regardless of their religious denomination. To this day when Watani is published as a weekly paper and an online news site, the objective remains the same. Those in charge of Watani view this role as a patriotic all-Egyptian vocation. Special attention is given to shedding light on Coptic culture and tradition as authentically Egyptian, this being a topic largely disregarded or little-understood by Egypt’s media. Watani is deeply dedicated to offer its readers high quality, extensive, objective, credible and well-researched media coverage, with special focus on Coptic issues, culture, heritage, and contribution to Egyptian society.
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